✶ Weekly Film Rundown: September 9-15, 2022

SLEEPER HORROR MUST-SEE

Barbarian A woman moving to Detroit for a job double-books a room with a stranger, and a mashup of horror genres ensues. Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, and Bill Skarsgård co-star in what could be the biggest horror breakout since Hereditary.

Now playing in theatres.

MID-BUDGET HISTORICAL EPIC

Medieval Reviews are tepid, which means this biopic of Jan Zizka, the Czech warlord who bested the Holy Roman Empire in the 15th century is probably better than Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings. With Ben Foster and Michael Caine.

Now playing in theatres.

ESSENTIAL INDIE

Funny Pages The millennial son of Kevin Kline debuts as a director with this acerbic and brutal Künstlerroman that finds an aspiring cartoonist leaving his lefty upper-middle-class bubble for the Big City to find an unwilling mentor in a failed comics artist.

Playing through Sunday at The Belcourt

BUDGET FRIENDLY LIFE CHANGER

Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut Seeing Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius’s iconic Vietnam movie on the big screen in the cut its creators intended changes the way one thinks about movies. Not bad for $12.50.

Now playing at The Belcourt.

GLOBAL SPECTACLE

Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva Bollywood swings for its own global blockbuster franchise with this fantasy romp about a DJ who discovers an ancient super weapon. Nothing like a Hindi epic on an off fall weekend.

Now playing in theatres.

PERPETUAL PURGATORY

Lifemark Kirk Cameron reunites with the folks from Fireproof for a Christian melodrama about an estranged mother wanting to meet her grandson. There’s preaching to the choir, secondhand embarrassment in store for discerning Christians, and more evidence conservative media successfully competing with Hollywood is less likely than accountability in the Southern Baptist Convention.